"Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity."

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Esa-Pekka Salonen

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“John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man. I would respectfully disagree with that.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. June 5, 2005.
“That what?" "That I knew i misjudged you. That you love him. I'm not saying In what way. Maybe you don't know yourself. But anyone paying attention could see how much you care about him," he says gently.”
“The rewards of art are not always commensurate with its quality. It affords a precarious living.”
“I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.”
“Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth.”
“A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.”
“To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity.”

Source : Brand Blanshard (2014). “Reason and Analysis”, p.493, Routledge
“Do you know, Masha, how revelation comes? Like death. So sudden, though you knew all along it must occur. A revelation is always the end of something. It might even be cause for grief.”

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